A clerk who sold liquor to minors, who then got into a fatal car wreck, pleaded guilty this morning to ten misdemeanor counts.
Van Thien Pham could be sentenced up to 10 months in jail and fined up to $5,000 for each count, according to the Jefferson County District Attorney’s Office.
Pham pleaded guilty to ten counts of providing alcohol to a minor, said Pam Russell, a spokeswoman with the district attorney’s office.
Pham sold liquor to teens involved in a March 13, 2007, crash in the Green Mountain area of Lakewood that killed Samara Stricklen, a 17-year-old Bear Creek High School student.
Stricklen was in a Honda Accord going to the movies with a friend when their car was hit by a Ford Explorer driven by 17-year-old Nanette Lafleur.
Lafleur and friends in the Explorer bought the alcohol from Pham. Lafleur veered across a median on West Alameda Parkway and hit the Honda Accord head-on.
She has a court hearing on the fatal crash this morning in Golden.
Pham will be sentenced on July 2.
Kieran Nicholson: 303-954-1822 or knicholson@denverpost.com.
